Chapter 1: Choreography
I'm useless at choreographies. Visuals and I do not get along as pancake and syrup.
Solution #1: Dictatorship
Shout at the performers to do it well... or to just do it. Avoid distractions and don't allow yourself to laugh at their jokes or be fooled by their excuses. Stupid people will think you are stupid.
Summary: Be cruel, be feared.
This solution does not work.
Solution #2: Uninterested
Let them work on their own. Come up with something and they show it to show. Then you perform solution #1, and tell them to do more. At the end, you fix, cut, add, change some details and say you did it.
This is what many people do. Doesn't work.
Solution #3: Focus group
Converse with the performers what they should do and how to tacle to objective. Everyone gives their ideas and then they perform it. This method will make the performers believe they have more power and vote than what they actually do, though, and may lead to distraction. Also, they will never come to a unison decision on what to do unless you tell them.
Therefore, this solution is stupid.
Solution #4: The tree
Performers than work: Stay
Performers that don't work: Put them as trees on the stage.
Performers that don't like to be trees: Will leave voluntarily
Flawless.
What is the best way to approach directing to young unprofessional performers?
Your solutions show a lack of analysis of the directing process, and very little empathy with the actors (you have just been one, remember?).
ResponderEliminarThere are some conclusions that do not necessarily come from the premises.
Try to analyze the director's work in more detail, and try out your findings constantly during rehearsals.
Roberto